Originally posted May 26 2026

Sometimes when I scroll through my feed and see some of the things ministries are pushing for those that think they are on the cutting edge of spiritual things, I can’t help thinking about the only time I can recall in scripture when Jesus seemed furious – a 100% righteous anger that so many deny peaceful Jesus even is capable of.

What single thing did religious people do that made Jesus so furious? It was when He came into the temple and saw the corrupt money changers and those who were price-gouging the poor who had come to the temple to make a sacrifice to God as they were instructed His Word to do.

It was one thing to sell them a dove to sacrifice at a reasonable price and an entirely different thing to over charge poor people so the seller could live in prosperity. If you don’t think Jesus still thinks like this, you sure don’t know the God you serve. You have no idea how much God hates this because so many have been doing it for so long, you have come to think of it as normal. It’s normal for the worldly, but not normal for the kingdom of God.

Jesus said to them, “My house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of robbers.”

All true ministries need resources to continue to minister, but those who use ministry as a get rich scheme really do not understand that God sees exactly what they are doing and Jesus doesn’t take kindly to it.

I hope you understand that I am not talking about just the richest or the famous names who have become wealthy in ministry. I am ALSO talking about those ministers who are trying to build their brand using spiritual gimmicks that appeal to both the uninformed and believers with ears always itching for something brand new that no one has ever heard of before. It appeals to those who love the latest name of a demonic spirit they can command against – with a result of doing nothing for anyone of any spiritual value!

Don’t waste your time following this people who are leading you off the paths of God, or those who are more concerned about the money they keep than the ministry you receive from them.

When I was telling Grok how I wanted this depicted, it showed what I always see from AI generated scenes about this – Jesus with an enraged facial expression. I don’t think that is what Jesus expression was. How I told Grok to refine the depiction of the scene is instructive, not only to Grok but to us:

Righteous anger is a different expression than evil wrath as the first picture Grok made for me expresses. Jesus is not out of control with his face contorted in anger. He is flipping tables of merchandise over to show how displeased he is. Tone down the look of rage in Jesus – that’s not what this was about. He was removing the things that corrupted the merchants.

Then Grok understood more of what I wanted: “controlled righteous indignation and purposeful authority.”

Finally, this instruction gave me the picture below about the crowd: Some are merchants and some are the poor people the merchants are taking advantage of, so not all would be angry with what Jesus is doing, the poor would be marveling that he stood up for them.

Now, the final word I have on this is that the merchants-ministries that take instruction on this do not need a crowd like Frankenstein had – peasants with pitchforks baying for blood! Those who will take the flipping over of their ‘merchandise’ and quit acting like money is their god, will take the rebuke that Jesus intended that day when He flipped over the tables in the temple. We are His temple, and He is overturning the ‘merchandise’ mentality we have in our own hearts. We call it ministry when it is often the drive for riches and fame. It doesn’t belong. And the poor people who have been taken advantage of are going to be grateful for the change to truth in the lives of many ministries.

Originally posted to Facebook 6/10/2026

I could write a book on the ignorance of Lou Engle thinking he is standing with Israel well in a partnership with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews WHO OPPOSE MESSIANIC JEWS IN ISRAEL & anywhere else. Lou Engle has made a massive misstep.

How is it that Lou Engle has rubbed elbows with Israel and American Messianic Jews for years and has failed to grasp that Christians cannot align with the Jewish organizations that oppose Jews being in the faith of Jesus?

Long Term Barrenness

is not God’s Final Answer

My Backyard Prophetic Sign

FB showed me a picture and an article I posted on June 7 2025 June 7. It is somewhat of a mission statement and what has been like a prophetic sign to me in my own backyard. After 27 years of barrenness, my fig tree has been bearing fruit the last two years. My expectations are that reality will soon catch up to the backyard sign of my fig tree. The first picture is the fig tree on June 7, 2025 and the second picture was taken June 7 2026. This year there is even more figs loaded on that tree than last year. The barren years are over.

Tending the Fig Tree

Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. Proverbs 27:18

by Donna Diorio

June 6 2025: As I write this on Tuesday morning with my coffee, I am eating a giant fig from my fig tree. For the first time since I planted it in 1998, it has finally produced fruit, and it is fruit in abundance! Most years it produced absolutely no fruit whatsoever.

Several times I concluded it was not planted in the right place to get the sun it needed. Even when we left the apartment and moved into this house in 2003 I had to replant it at least three times trying to find the place it would thrive.

It has been in the same location now for over a decade, a perfect spot but it continued not to produce fruit that could be eaten. Twice two bitter winters leveled it to the ground, but it grew back stronger, and even produced 3 or 4 figs we could eat.